Capital Counseling, MSW, LCSW-R

Capital Counseling Your Lifeline to Better Mental Health

Eating Disorders comprise a group of conditions characterized by emotional distress and compulsive behaviors related to food. Anorexia refers to the compulsive restriction of calorie intake often accompanied by an intense fear of evidencing any body fat. At times such individuals develop perceptual distortions in which they perceive themselves as fat despite being evidently underweight. Another Eating Disorder is Bulimia in which individuals compulsively cause themselves to vomit to prevent calorie intake. Some bulimics eat large quantities of food, referred to as binging, prior to purging through vomiting. A third Eating Disorder is compulsive overeating in which individuals consume far more calories than needed which can be driven by a number of unmet...(view profile to read more)